Do Not Intervene: UNAMIR's Rules of Engagement from the Inside

Abstract

During the quarter of a century that has passed since Genocide gripped Rwanda, numerous articles have been written about the Rules of Engagement (roe) for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (unamir). Understandably, many of those articles have focused on unamir’s failure to protect civilians, and how the force’s limited mandate impacted the mission’s ability (or lack thereof) to influence those genocide and events that surrounded it. Show more